India Reports Completely Drug-Resistant TB
It won’t be too long before we’re back to a pre-1930’s world, where “antibiotics” are a science fictional concept that don’t do a damned thing. It is largely due to two problems:
1) Over-use of antibiotics, not only in treating every damned case of the sniffles, but perhaps worse, by dumping kilotons of the stuff into farm animal feed
2) Under-use of the antibiotics that are *appropriately* prescribed. TB is apparently really bad here… the symptoms go away before the disease is truly gone, so a lot of dumbasses get the disease, get the antibiotics, and quit taking them before their system is truly cleared out. As a result, the TB germs come back stronger than ever. Rinse, rather, repeat… natural selection, aided by artificial stupidty, lead to stronger and more survivable diseases.
Perhaps TB and similar deadly, drug-resistant diseases should be re-termed “The Creationist Plague.”